Re: Using REST service created with IWS

[Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Booth,

If you already created the temperature conversion example using IWS and 
have it running, then you can use the "Manage Deployed Services" link, 
select the correct resource from the list and click the Properties button.

On the General tab that's displayed you'll see

Base resource URL:    http://1.2.3.4:10010/web/services/ftoc

Copy and paste that to a browser's address bar and add the temperature 
convert, e.g.

http://1.2.3.4:10010/web/services/ftoc/90

The response I get (shown in the browser) is

<CONVERTTEMPResult>
<TEMPOUT>32.22</TEMPOUT>
</CONVERTTEMPResult>

Btw, thanks for all your posts about this subject. Reading that thread 
was a great help in my project.

On 1/14/2019 2:31 PM, Booth Martin wrote:
> Walk me through this.  The temperature conversion example included 
> with IWS...  The address is http://an.iSeries.com/coop/ I want to say 
> F2C and 90, meaning I want the api to convert 90 degrees Fahrenheit to 
> Celsius.   What should that look like?
>
>
> On 1/14/2019 4:16 PM, Tim Fathers wrote:
> > While I agree the definition of REST can be pretty flexible and there 
> > are no hard and fast rules, I think it is a fairly well established 
> > rule of thumb that the URL should generally identify the resource, 
> > not the query parameters. The body (which I think you mean by 
> > "standard input") is where the payload should go, and should not be 
> > used on on a GET request in any case.
> >
> > In some APIs the resource is not a "thing" but a function, in which 
> > case it is considered ok to pass query parameters to it in the URL 
> > for a GET or in the body for a POST. The example of this from my 
> > favourite REST book "The RESTful Webservices Cookbook" is a distance 
> > calculator. So /calc_distance?from=wiesbaden&to=frankfurt is ok 
> > because "distance" is not a thing but a function.
> >
> > Tim.